Printing Innovation Asia Issue 8 2021
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Premium print shop B Speedmaster CX 104 • Massive increase in net productivity • Speedmaster CX 104 replaces two medium-format presses • Highly automated workflow control with Prinect Belgian print shop Buroform was founded in 1982 and is based in Mechelen. In recent years, co-owner Jesse Marynen has turned the company, which currently has 40 employees, into a supplier of premium print products. In addition to customers from Belgium’s fine dining and cultural scenes, Buroform works for international businesses in sectors such as the automotive and gaming industries. Publishers also have their art books printed there. The print shop also has its own web platform called designcards.be to market its gift, birthday, and wedding cards. The BAAS (Buroform as a Service) platform enables customers to edit standard print products in a private online shop and place print orders. A third platform will be going live next September. Ensuring the company keeps moving forward is very important
to Marynen. “I’m always looking to initiate new projects and develop new products,” he says. Buroform uses Prinect Production Manager from Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg) for its highly automated production workflow. Pressroom revamped At the end of 2020, to further boost net productivity, Buroform replaced two older medium-format
presses and invested in the new Speedmaster CX 104 from Heidelberg as one of its pilot users. This fourcolor press in the 70 x 100 format is equipped with Push to Stop technology for autonomous printing and an LE UV drying system. It has provided Marynen with exactly the right solution to produce Buroform’s wideranging, high-quality job spectrum with exceptional flexibility and costefficiency. Massive increase in net productivity “Thanks to the new Speedmaster CX 104, we’ve significantly increased our net productivity,” confirms Marynen. “On average, we’re producing our print jobs 20 percent faster than before and completing up to five job changes in the space of an hour,” he adds. This enabled Marynen and his team of print engineers to change 184 plates in a single shift – a new in-house record.
Investing in the new Speedmaster CX 104 from Heidelberg quickly paid off for Buroform co-owner Jesse Marynen.
Overall, the Speedmaster CX 104 has more than halved the time Buroform requires to set up a job compared with the presses previously used. The print
